Why men avoid getting the help they need

Trump and Harris vocabularies signal their different frames of mind

Patricia Friedrich, Arizona State University

People can have their own personal dialect based on their own linguistic and social experiences.

Gentrification isn’t inevitable − it can hinge on how residents view their neighborhood

Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Sarah Mayorga, Brandeis University

A case study of a mainly Latino neighborhood in Houston shows that when residents value a neighborhood as it is, they can forestall large-scale redevelopment.

Self-forgiveness is more than self-comfort − a philosopher explains

Mordechai Gordon, Quinnipiac University

Ahead of the Jewish High Holidays, repentance and forgiveness are on many people’s minds. But self-forgiveness is important for personal growth, too.

College can be confusing for first-generation students – but it doesn’t have to be

Blake R. Silver, George Mason University

Though abundant choices and flexibility may have broad appeal, research shows those things can also complicate the college-going process.

Half of Black gay men will be diagnosed with HIV, despite highly effective preventive treatments − why?

Oluwafemi Atanda Adeagbo, University of Iowa; Joy Edeh, University of Iowa

PrEP can reduce the risk of sexually transmitted HIV infection by 99%. Discrimination and distrust are two barriers Black gay men face in accessing this lifesaving treatment.

Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone

Taryn Lindhorst, University of Washington

The first wind phone appeared in Japan in 2010, and the concept has since spread around the world.

Rare Florida fossil finally ends debate about how porcupine jaws and tails evolved

Natasha S. Vitek, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)

Modern North American porcupines are at least twice the size of their southern cousins and have stronger jaws. But how long have they looked that way?

Nepal’s revamped truth commissions will need to go beyond ‘ritualism’ to deliver justice to civil war victims

Tracy Fehr, University of Colorado Boulder

A newly amended law may push the country beyond what has been a drawn-out and sluggish process to account for the country’s civil war.

Growing number of war-weary Ukrainians would reluctantly give up territory to save lives, suggests recent survey

Kristin M Bakke, UCL; Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech; John O’Loughlin, University of Colorado Boulder

Just half of survey respondents wanted to continue fighting to regain all Ukrainian territory including Crimea.

The Innu have lived in eastern Canada for thousands of years, yet their rights to this land are increasingly threatened by the question: who is Indigenous?

Colin Samson, University of Essex

The emergence of a well-resourced rival claim to Indigenous land rights is of growing concern to the Innu people of Labrador-Quebec.

Pager attack on Hezbollah was a sophisticated ‘booby-trap’ operation − it was also illegal

Pagers and walkie-talkies over cellphones – a security expert explains why Hezbollah went low-tech for communications

Trump’s second assassination attempt is shocking, but attempts on presidents’ lives are not rare in US history